Sustainability

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Size Matters: Can Buildings Be Too Tall?

Size Matters: Can Buildings Be Too Tall?

From: The New Carbon Architecture

In this chapter, the author seeks to answer the question: are there limits to how much increases in urban density — especially via vertical growth — will contribute to rather than … 11 $1.10 Add
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Social Democracy and a Green New Deal
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Social Democracy and a Green New Deal

PART 3: The System-Changing Frameworks

From: Worlds at Stake

Chapter 7 examines the potential role social democracy can play in reshaping the current system, challenging the present neoliberal hegemony with a justice-based Green New Deal to fight the … 21 $2.10 Add
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Soft-Path Solutions

Soft-Path Solutions

From: Back to the Well

In this chapter, de Villiers continues to discuss efficiency and suggests that we should focus on increasing that instead of trying to redistribute and increase our water supply. 20 $2.00 Add
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Space, the Canadian Frontier?

Space, the Canadian Frontier?

Landscape, Identity, and Power

From: Consuming Sustainability

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Step 1: Selecting Behaviors

Step 1: Selecting Behaviors

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

Whether you are developing a program to promote water efficiency, waste reduction, watershed protection, energy efficiency, modal transportation shifts, or virtually any other area related to … 11 $0.11 Add
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Step 2: Identifying Barriers and Benefits

Step 2: Identifying Barriers and Benefits

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

Uncovering barriers and benefits involves four steps. 1) Begin by reviewing relevant articles and reports. 2) Following this review, carry out observations of people engaging in the behavior you … 20 $0.40 Add
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Step 3: Developing Strategies

Step 3: Developing Strategies

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

This chapter will provide an overview of how to design effective strategies. Developing a community-based social marketing strategy involves addressing two behaviors simultaneously: 1) the … 4 $0.40 Add
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Step 3: Developing Strategies - Self-Perception Theory

Step 3: Developing Strategies – Self-Perception Theory

Commitment: From Good Intentions to Action

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

Self-Perception Theory intriguingly suggests that if we can provide opportunities for people to engage in sustainable behaviors conveniently, the very act of engaging in those behaviors will … 18 $0.18 Add
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Step 3: Developing Strategies - Norms & Sustainable Behaviour

Step 3: Developing Strategies – Norms & Sustainable Behaviour

Social Norms: Building Community Support

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

To date too little attention has been given to the significant impact that norms can have upon the adoption of sustainable behavior. If we are to make the transition to a sustainable future, it … 13 $0.13 Add
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Step 3: Developing Strategies - Social Diffusion

Step 3: Developing Strategies – Social Diffusion

Social Diffusion: Speeding the Adoption of New Behaviors

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

Both the mundane and important decisions of our lives are strongly affected by a process known as social diffusion or diffusion of innovations. In contrast with what nonpersonal sources of … 11 $0.11 Add
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Step 3: Developing Strategies - Forgetting

Step 3: Developing Strategies – Forgetting

Prompts: Rembering to Act

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

Numerous actions that promote sustainability are susceptible to the most human of traits: forgetting. Fortunately, “prompts” are effective in reminding people to engage in sustainable … 12 $0.12 Add
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Step 3: Developing Strategies - Communication

Step 3: Developing Strategies – Communication

Communication: Creating Effective Messages

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

Much of human communication involves persuasion. Whether done by a four-year-old or a marketing firm, the aims are the same: to influence our attitudes and/or our behavior. The transition to a … 21 $0.42 Add
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Step 3: Developing Strategies - Incentives

Step 3: Developing Strategies – Incentives

Incentives: Enhancing Motivation to Act

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

Financial incentives can provide the motivation for individuals to perform an activity that they already engage in more effectively, such as recycling, or to begin an activity that they otherwise … 12 $0.12 Add
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Step 3: Developing Strategies - Barriers

Step 3: Developing Strategies – Barriers

Convenience: Making it Easy to Act

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

If the behavior is unpleasant or time-consuming, for example, no matter how well you address internal barriers your community-based social marketing strategy will be unsuccessful. The first step … 9 $0.90 Add
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Step 4: Piloting

Step 4: Piloting

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

Think of a pilot as a “test run,” an opportunity to work out the bugs before committing to carrying out a strategy broadly. As noted in the chapters on developing strategies, the … 7 $0.70 Add
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Step 5: Broad-scale Implementation and Evaluation

Step 5: Broad-scale Implementation and Evaluation

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

When a pilot project has demonstrated that a behavioral change can be brought about cost-effectively, it is time to broadly implement the strategy. Prior to broad-scale implementation, collect … 3 $0.30 Add